Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-21
THE STATE FAIR.
THE MECHANICS PLOTS
TO DESTROY IT.
NJ. ID. Boruck-Duty OF the Peo-
pie of the Interior.
SAN FEANcIsco, May 10. 1887.

IAN Il tsaNNloNOJ ~, 400.
EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN: A ring or clique,
do not know which, and care less, in the
Board of Directors of the Mechanics Insti-
tute of this city, have started out on an ex-
petition to break down and destroy the
usefulness of the State Fair, which, under
State law, is held each year in Sacramento.
That | am not mistaken in my Premises,
need only refer you to the fact that at
meeting held by the Directors aforesaid on
Tuesday evening last, Mr.. P B. Cornwall,
President of the Mechanics Institute, an
nounced that il was his intention to make
the coming fair of the institution of which
he is the head the Estate Fair" of Cali
fornia. San Francisco not satisfied with
would an orange, squeezing every drop of
juice out of it, now wants to go after the
seeds and the skin.
The course marked out by the Mechanics
Institute is nothing more nor less than
menace to the very best interests of the
entire State. In its design and intent it is
thoroughly and intensely selfish There is
not an agricultural section of the State that
will not come under this baleful influence
should it succeed in its object. The organ
ization of the Mechanics Institute had
nothing whatever to do with agriculture,
but when it was established it was
| solely in the interest of mechanic arts.
Every agricultural district in the State
G nrl1 J.,
cultural Society in the onslaught made
upon 1t by the avarlcious and greedy men,
bers of the Mechanics Institute, and do
everything in their power to thwart the
Mechanics Institute in this brigandage at
! tempt to wrest from other sections of the
State that to which they are legally and
equitably entitled, in order to swell the
already enormous revenue of the Me
chanics' Institute, for which during MANY
years past but little in return has been
given. This is a matter that does not con-
Germ the northern, southern, eastern or
western portion of the State as an isolated
fact, but interests them all alike for we do
assure all the agricultural districts of the
State that should they permit the Me-
chanics' Institute to carry out to a success
full conclusion the plot its Directors are
now Matching, and which they hope to
bring to fruition by and through those
means that now contribute to the success
of the districts referred to- in one year
after date there would not be one of them
left to tell the tale. Let the Mechanics H.
stitute succeed in breaking down the State
Agricultural Society, and every other So
ciety follows suit. Now let the people of
Sacramento, who certainly must feel re-
freshed after the long sleep they have
enjoyed, see what they can do to arouse
a responsive sentiment ON the part
of the agriculturists of the State
in the efforts to resist the attempt of
the Mechanics Institute. The Mechanics
Institute, through its Board of Directors,
have appealed to the business men of San
Francisco to raise 500, 900 in order to break
down and ruin the State Agricultural So
ciety; now, let the Board of Trade of Sac
ramento protest against this action of the
Mechanics Institute and see what can be
raised in Sacramento in order to prevent
the act of vandalism that is about to be
attempted. While the whole State is in
terested in the maintenance and success of
the State Society, Sacramento is particu
| larly interested by reason of its location,
and the pride of its people should be
aroused to an extent that would enable
| them to entirely defeat the Vaccinations of
their enemies, as set forth above. There is
no time to lose. The time has gone by
for sleeping on arms. The Mechanics In
! stitute is in action, and therefore an armed
neutralist is first cousin to desertion. Wake
up then and 60 to work. God helps those
who help themselves. NJ D. BoRUcK.